Cameraman

ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - A Reuters television cameraman was shot in the leg and wounded while filming on the front line in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Monday. Ayman al-Sahili, a Libyan citizen working as part of a Reuters multi-media reporting team, was hit by a rifle bullet fired from a distance. He was treated in Syria and then driven across the border to Turkey. His life was not in danger. The ambulance transporting Sahili to Turkey encountered an air strike in Aleppo and...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian television cameraman was pronounced brain dead by surgeons at a Rio de Janeiro hospital Monday, four days after a firework lit by a protester struck him in the head. His death, the first in Brazil this year due to protests that threaten to disrupt the World Cup soccer tournament beginning in June, underscores the unruliness and violence that have come to characterize the small, but continued rallies that began with a series of...

NUERBURGRING, Germany (Reuters) - A television cameraman suffered a broken collarbone and two broken ribs after being struck by a wheel which came off Mark Webber's Red Bull during a pitstop in the early stages of the German Grand Prix on Sunday. Formula One safety has been in the headlines since multiple tyre blow-outs at last weekend's British Grand Prix raised fears about drivers being hit by flying debris, and Sunday's incident will fuel concern about pitlane dangers. While teams'...

By Michael Hirtzer OTTAWA, Ill., Sept 28 (Reuters) - Professional skydiver Brandon Atwood has a strange but essential job while hurtling toward Earth at more than 100 miles (160 km) per hour: He points a video camera attached to his helmet back up toward the sky while his teammates execute a complex aerial routine. Without Atwood's contribution, none of the spectators on the ground would be able to see the Arizona Arsenal's winning performance in...

You can hire a cameraman for about $30,000 a year, or you can buy a CameraMan for about $1,000-the most remarkable video product of the past decade. ParkerVision, a Florida-based company, puts you back in your own videos with CameraMan. Camcorders have been around for almost a decade. When you play those baby videos back on the TV, you notice something strange. One member of the family never appears in the videos. Daddy or Mommy is stuck operating the camcorder. Camcorders penalize their operators...

LONDON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A television cameraman working for Britain's Sky News was shot and killed in Cairo on Wednesday as violence flared in Egypt, Sky News said. Cameraman Mick Deane, 61, had worked for the BSkyB owned news channel for 15 years, based in Washington and then Jerusalem. He is married with two sons. "The loss of a much-loved colleague will be deeply felt across Sky News. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and family," John...

Howard "Howie" Sprechman, 47, a cameraman for WGN-TV News, served as the principal operator of its first mini-cam crew. Services for Mr. Sprechman, an Arlington Heights resident, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Beth Shalom Synagogue, 3433 Walters Ave., Northbrook. He died in Michael Reese Hospital Tuesday after a two-year bout with cancer. "Howie was an artist with a camera," WGN's Paul Davis said. "As a child, he had two fantasies. One was to be a news cameraman and the other was to...

BEIRUT, April 9 (Reuters) - Syrian soldiers shot dead a cameraman working for Lebanon's Al-Jadeed television channel on Monday near the border between the two countries, the television channel said. It said cameraman Ali Shaaban was on the Lebanese side of the frontier, in the northern Lebanese region of Wadi Khaled, when soldiers opened fire on a car carrying the Al-Jadeed crew. Shaaban's colleague Hussein Khreiss said the shooting occurred even though the crew...

NUERBURGRING, Germany (Reuters) - A television cameraman suffered a broken collarbone and two broken ribs after being struck by a wheel which came off Mark Webber's Red Bull during a pitstop in the early stages of the German Grand Prix on Sunday. Formula One safety has been in the headlines since multiple tyre blow-outs at last weekend's British Grand Prix raised fears about drivers being hit by flying debris, and Sunday's incident will fuel concern about pitlane dangers. While teams'...

Mike Tyson was questioned by police in Brazil early Thursday after a television cameraman accused the former heavyweight champion of assaulting him outside a nightclub. Tyson could face charges of assault and destruction of property, Sao Paulo police spokeswoman Kelly Pinheiro said. A court hearing has been scheduled for Friday. Carlos Eduardo da Silva, a cameraman with the Brazilian television network SBT, told police Tyson pushed him and threw his camera to the ground...

Conrad A. "Cal" Langenberg had the ability to see beauty in the world around him and capture it on camera during an award-winning 40-year career as a cinematographer with Chicago public television station WTTW. "He could frame and compose a beautiful shot," said longtime producer and director Thea Flaum. "He was blessed with a great eye. " Bob Dove, for many years a colleague at WTTW, said much of Mr. Langenberg's work was on documentaries. "When you're doing documentaries, it's...

A television cameraman died Tuesday in a forklift accident while taping the Shell's Wonderful World of Golf exhibition between Fred Couples and Mark Calcavecchia in Carmel, Calif. Brian Blodgett, a cameraman for all 42 of the Shell's matches since they were revived in 1994, died while being taken to Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula. The cause of death was pending an autopsy. Blodgett, of Jacksonville, Fla., was 37. He is survived by his wife, Kelly. Couples and Calcavecchia...

ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - A Reuters television cameraman was shot in the leg and wounded while filming on the front line in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Monday. Ayman al-Sahili, a Libyan citizen working as part of a Reuters multi-media reporting team, was hit by a rifle bullet fired from a distance. He was treated in Syria and then driven across the border to Turkey. His life was not in danger. The ambulance transporting Sahili to Turkey encountered an air strike in Aleppo and...

Rocker Tommy Lee allegedly tangled with a video paparazzi early Sunday and the cameraman ended up at a hospital. Lee, Motley Crue's drummer, was leaving Hollywood's Viper Room with his wife, Pamela Anderson Lee of "Baywatch," when Henry Trappler turned his camera on them. Lee allegedly attacked Trappler, who was treated at a hospital for a broken pelvis. Trappler filed a misdemeanor assault battery report against Lee. A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County sheriff's office says the Lees will...